Loïc Bessilé

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288 Edition

The Hearts of Oak Gazette

2 Feb 2032
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad2 Feb 2032

Brian Oddei is in the form of his life

A season average of 8.09 with 34 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad2 Feb 2032

A fracture rules David Atanga out for 113 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Hearts of Oak will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market2 Feb 2032

Terms done: Loïc Bessilé is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and WAFA waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Hearts of Oak is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Player ratings2 Feb 2032

Brian Oddei scores twice — 9.22

Two goals and a mark of 9.22 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings2 Feb 2032

Age has not caught Deano Van Rooyen yet — 8.09

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.09 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad2 Feb 2032

Kelvin Osei Asibey: 10 seasons and counting

253 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Hearts of Oak know exactly what they have.

The dugout2 Feb 2032

Thabo Mokwena: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Hearts of Oak have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Boardroom2 Feb 2032

Window shuts: 8 in, 11 out at Hearts of Oak

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 8 arrived, 11 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad2 Feb 2032

David Atanga stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” David Atanga and Hearts of Oak agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

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280 Edition

The Hearts of Oak Gazette

8 Dec 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Match6 Dec 2031

75 unbeaten for Hearts of Oak

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 75 matches without defeat is a foundation Hearts of Oak did not have in the autumn.

Match6 Dec 2031

Hearts of Oak make home a hard place to visit

46 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad8 Dec 2031

Defences have started doubling up on Brian Oddei

25 goals and a season average of 7.92 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Market8 Dec 2031

Seth Green is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hearts of Oak is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad8 Dec 2031

A falling-out at Hearts of Oak

Jake Hollman and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout8 Dec 2031

Emmanuel Olisa gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad8 Dec 2031

Words at Hearts of Oak training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joel Fameyeh is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings8 Dec 2031

Ninety minutes of Jake Hollman at his very best

Marked 8.18. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Hearts of Oak.

Squad8 Dec 2031

Ernest Bukari stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ernest Bukari and Hearts of Oak agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

263 Edition

The Hearts of Oak Gazette

11 Aug 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad11 Aug 2031

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rashid Sumaila

129 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hearts of Oak lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad11 Aug 2031

47 days out for Joel Fameyeh after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Hearts of Oak will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match11 Aug 2031

Hearts of Oak are top

80 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.

Market11 Aug 2031

Chidiebere Nwobodo has said yes to BA All Stars

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Hearts of Oak have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market11 Aug 2031

Ethan Sutherland has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hearts of Oak they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market11 Aug 2031

Loïc Bessilé hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Hearts of Oak can pretend not to have heard.

Squad11 Aug 2031

Real improvement from Basel Medhat at Hearts of Oak

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Basel Medhat is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad11 Aug 2031

Tempers go at Hearts of Oak

Joel Fameyeh was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market11 Aug 2031

Medeama expected to open talks for Kelvin Osei Asibey

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Hearts of Oak will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief

215 Edition

The Dinamo Tbilisi Gazette

9 Sep 2030
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match7 Sep 2030

Dinamo Tbilisi make home a hard place to visit

74 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad9 Sep 2030

Mario Galeano is in the form of his life

A season average of 8.16 with 40 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Market9 Sep 2030

Joseph Essien has said yes to Kolkheti

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Dinamo Tbilisi have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Player ratings9 Sep 2030

Both of them Mario Galeano's — 9.32

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.32, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad9 Sep 2030

Dobrivoj Rusov breaks a bone — 72 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 72 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market9 Sep 2030

Bueno puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Dinamo Tbilisi, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match7 Sep 2030

Dinamo Tbilisi make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Dinamo Tbilisi have 3 straight wins of it.

Boardroom9 Sep 2030

Loïc Bessilé signs for Dila while still at Dinamo Tbilisi

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Loïc Bessilé has agreed terms with Dila for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Market9 Sep 2030

Loïc Bessilé has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Tbilisi they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

In brief